Blog 2

 

                                                       The New York Times headquarters

 

 

 

I rearly ever read new papers, but I understand that they are a very important part of the media.  Now because of the growth of things like the web, cell phones, computers, and television there are so many different avenues that people can access the news. If I had to cloose a new paper company that could survive the new era of media.  It would be the New York Times.  For starters I know that they are popular and respected company.  The reason for this is, I no who they are and what they are about and I dont read the paper. For example I live in Baltimore and I never seen the dundalk eagle or read it.  I can at least say that I have read the Baltimore sun a few times.  In my opinion I think it going to be harder for any newpaper company to go out of business period! All these new things we have now operate on power sources and databases. Meaning electricity and saterllites. Somthing could go wrong with those things even in our personal lives.  For example your house power could go out for a storm.  You could break your phone or laptop on the way to work.  If u drop a newpaper I assure you that it will be fine. If its not lol, its alot easier and cheaper to get another newpaper vesus another phone or laptop.  New papers are very cheap to make and buy.  For example you cant framed something you get off the internet.  well you could , but  you wouldn't get that same historical feeling that you get from a new paper.  NewPapers symbolized and records history. What I am trying to say is there are a lot of priceless things that come with newpapers that we wouldn't fully understand until their gone completely.  For example the NewYork Times was founded and purlished in New York City since Semptember 18, 1851(Wikipedia). Which implies that no one living today has ever lived in a world with out newpapers existing. The reasson  I chose the New York  Times versus the othe newpaper companies when it comes down to survival. It was their historcal pass and their present good ripetition. It was very impressive.     

My Veiws on aAmericans Magazines

Women and men are presented in a lot of different ways in magazines.  Women are very sexy, classes, and presentable. It is rare that women appear on covers that don’t have none of the quality that I listed above.  Men in my opinion are normally represented with some type of symbol power.  For example women, jewelry, fashion, fancy cars, hard bodies, and sports.

 

I believe there are tons of diversity in magazines because of the wide range of topics.  The magazines that stood out to me the most was the weekly magazines.  Magazines like in touch weekly and the hip hop weekly.  I view a weekly magazines like in touch as a mainly white people magazines, and a magazines like hip hop weekly as a mainly black people magazine.  What really interesting to me is the black and white celebrity that appear in both magazines, For example you have to be very good or very bad to have headlines in both.  I label these celebrities as mage stars.  It’s like they are on top of the world.  Just to name a few, they are people like Kim Kardashian, Kanye west, Justin Bieger, jay-z, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, and Rihanna.  

 

In conclusion the magazines attempt to draw you in by pictures and gossips.  This makes for good advertising because gossip is normally entertaining and exciting.  To the point where you go to know more whether it’s true or not.  For example I brought an in touch magazines after I read the headline. The headline stated “ Lamar’s 5million $  tell all.  Kardashian secrets exposed.”  I think headlines like this one what people really want.  No body wants to read about anything boring where, is the fun in that!  I think headlines are hopeful for the consumer, we are hoping and waiting for more entertainment.  Head lines are fearful for celebrities because they never know when they are going to be exposed in the media.  

My Views on Americans Magazines

(In Touch)

Lamar Odom is writing a $5 million “tell-all”

When I evaluated the magazines at the checkout counter. I did approve of most of them. I saw a lot of different types of images. For example, movies stars, music stars, reality TV stars, sport stars, models, and political figures. In my opinion most of the images was realistic to a certain degree. For example the people on magazines covers look happy and successful.  Now we know that they are successful because they are on the cover. On the other hand, just because they look happy doesn’t mean that they are.  Looks can be very deceiving!

 

The headlines I saw was about success stories, relationships drama, gossip, and Celebrity battles or competitions.  I think headlines can be positive and negative. It could depend on how you receive it. Different people have different morals, beliefs, and views. The headlines could be putting out a positive message out hypothetically, like a famous person surviving cancer. Then on the other hand the headline could be putting out a negative message, like a celebrity court for a DWI.

 

I think diversity is represented in magazines, but there are more that cater to white people. I don’t think this is racialism. It is a fact that white people are the majority in this country. It just is what it is. So logically that makes sense to me. I think the balance between whether or not gossip is true or not is very thin. For example a picture can be perceived in a lot of different ways. Something might not necessary be true but the picture could make the message more believable.

 

Women and men are presented in a lot of different ways in magazines.  Women are very sexy, classes, and presentable. It is rare that women appear on covers that don’t have none of the quality that I listed